The topic of the Second Vatican Council always opens up a can of worms, but so be it. It frequently is the source of (sometimes heated) debate among non-liberal Catholics. Whatever one may think of it, Vatican II is a reality that isn't going to be ...

He is a leading interpreter of the Second Vatican Council and co-editor of the English version of the five-volume history of the council (Orbis Books). He has taught courses on the church, ministry and, curiously, on the thought of the Vatican II ...

Cardinal Baum was witness to major moments of Church history in the twentieth century from the Second Vatican Council through to the election of Pope Francis, the first Latin American pope. When Saint John Paul II died in 2005, Cardinal Baum acted as ...

He noted that in his thirties, Cardinal Baum was already recognized as one of the Catholic Church's authorities on interfaith relations, serving as an advisor on ecumenical matters at the Second Vatican Council and later as the first executive director ...

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. (July 2015) -- Twelve leading scholars from the United States and Europe have produced essays on the Second Vatican Council for a new book co-edited by School of Theology and Ministry Associate Professor Andrea Vicini, S.J. ...

Shortly after his installation at the Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Brownsville on Sept. 2, 1965, Bishop Marx left for Rome to attend the meetings of the Second Vatican Council. During a break, he traveled to Germany to visit relatives. He died of ...

The times when the theologians of liberation were provoking this radical perspective were the times leading to the Second Vatican Council. They were the times when the Church itself was becoming aware, to use a metaphor so dear to the instigator of the ...

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